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  • Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft’s Secure by Design journey: One year of success

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/17/microsofts-secure-by-design-journey-one-year-of-success/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Microsoft’s Secure by Design journey: One year of success Feedly Summary: Read about the initiatives Microsoft has undertaken over the past 18 months to support secure by design, secure by default, and secure in operations objectives as part of our SFI Initiative. The post Microsoft’s Secure by…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Debuts Codex CLI, an Open Source Coding Tool For Terminals

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/16/1931240/openai-debuts-codex-cli-an-open-source-coding-tool-for-terminals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Debuts Codex CLI, an Open Source Coding Tool For Terminals Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s release of Codex CLI marks a significant development in local AI integration for coding tasks, allowing developers to leverage advanced AI capabilities directly from command-line interfaces. While it enhances…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: openai/codex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/openai-codex/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: openai/codex Feedly Summary: openai/codex Just released by OpenAI, a “lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal". Looks like their version of Claude Code. Tags: ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai-agents, openai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recently released lightweight coding agent, integrated into the terminal,…

  • Schneier on Security: Slopsquatting

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/slopsquatting.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Slopsquatting Feedly Summary: As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers create and upload libraries with those names—laced with malware, of course. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical security concern in the intersection of AI and…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Unveils Coding-Focused GPT-4.1 While Phasing Out GPT-4.5

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/14/1726250/openai-unveils-coding-focused-gpt-41-while-phasing-out-gpt-45 Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Unveils Coding-Focused GPT-4.1 While Phasing Out GPT-4.5 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s launch of the GPT-4.1 model family emphasizes enhanced coding capabilities and instruction adherence. The new models expand token context significantly and introduce a tiered pricing strategy, offering a more cost-effective alternative while…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/12/andrew-nesbitt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt Feedly Summary: Slopsquatting — when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson AI Summary…

  • The Register: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ Source: The Register Title: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Feedly Summary: Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ The rise of AI-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software – and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Cloud Blog: Next 25 developer keynote: From prompt, to agent, to work, to fun

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next25-developer-keynote-recap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Next 25 developer keynote: From prompt, to agent, to work, to fun Feedly Summary: Attending a tech conference like Google Cloud Next can feel like drinking from a firehose — all the news, all the sessions, and breakouts, all the learning and networking… But after a busy couple…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-rust

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/llm-fragments-rust/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-rust Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-rust Inspired by Filippo Valsorda’s llm-fragments-go, Francois Garillot created llm-fragments-rust, an LLM fragments plugin that lets you pull documentation for any Rust crate directly into a prompt to LLM. I really like this example, which uses two fragments to load documentation for two crates…

  • Slashdot: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/0519242/ai-models-still-struggle-to-debug-software-microsoft-study-shows Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study by Microsoft Research highlights the limitations of popular AI models, such as Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini, in successfully debugging software. Despite advancements, AI still falls short…